An Alberta farmer is the province’s new minister of agriculture and irrigation.
Premier Danielle Smith appointed Tara Saywer, the MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, a wheat and barley farmer from Acme, Alta., and the inaugural chair of Alberta Grains, as the new ag minister in a May 21 cabinet shuffle.
Ag groups like the Wheat Growers Association welcomed the new minister as someone who “understands the opportunities and challenges facing producers across the Prairies.”